The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

ISBN-13: 9780262521055 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 712 str.

Dom Alfred Graham; Hans Blumenberg; Tom McCarthy

Opis

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Lowith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.